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Context Purussaurus was a giant species of caiman that went extinct millions of years ago, but this photograph does not show a genuine fossil. This is a replica model of a skull belonging to a different extinct crocodile species: Deinosuchus. Origin In April 2021, a photograph started to circulate on social media that supposedly showed a person kneeling next to the skull of the largest crocodile that ever lived: Purussaurus truly was a giant species of caiman that lived circa 8 million years ago, but the above-displayed picture does not feature a Purussaurus fossil. This is actually a model created by the company Crawley Creatures, a model design company from the United Kingdom that makes everything from movie props to museum displays. Furthermore, the skull in this picture was modeled off of a different extinct crocodile species, Deinosuchus, not Purussaurus.

United statesUnited kingdomAline ghilardiJez gibson harrisNatural history museum of utahAustralia museumCrawley creaturesCrawley creatureWestern australia museumNorth americaNatural history museumLate miocene periodஒன்றுபட்டது மாநிலங்களில்ஒன்றுபட்டது கிஂக்டம்யாழினி கிலார்டிஇயற்கை வரலாறு அருங்காட்சியகம் ஆஃப் உட்டா